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Si Ling-Chi discovers silk making, according to legend
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Hatshepsut, a woman, reigns as pharaoh
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Nefertiti has power as co-regent with the pharaoh
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Agnodice is the first known female physician
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Artemisia II builds one of the ancient wonders, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
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Cleopatra is born, she would be the last pharaoh
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Boudica leads uprising against Romans
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The Trung sisters lead uprising against Chinese conquerors
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Zenobia drastically expands the Palmyrene empire
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Joan of Arc is born, she would help the King regain his throne
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Elizabeth I reigns
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Juana Ines de la Cruz campaigns for the education of women
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Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Women
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Anna Filosofova co-founds women's society to provide housing and employment for women
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Kate Sheppard petitions Parliament for women's suffrage
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Marie Curie wins the Nobel Prize for her work with radium
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Raicho Hiratsuka creates first all-female run literary journal - Seito
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Woman over the age of 30 gain the right to vote
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Doria Shafik in Egypt petitions Parliament for equal rights for women. In England, Rosalind Franklin provides evidence of DNA's structure
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white man
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Rigoberta Menchu wins the Nobel Prize for her work on gaining rights for native populations
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Billie Jean King demands equal prize money for women at the U.S. Open
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Unity Dow wins case allowing citizenship to pass from mother to child
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Loveness Mudzuru and Ruvimbo Tsopodzi wins court case which criminalizes child marriage